DotNetNuke Zen Garden Design Challenge

A look at useful online documents and web sites for any front-end developer or web UI designer who wishes to improve their users’ experience.

This is an updated version of Jenni Merrifield's post "Helpful Documents and Websites for UX Conscious Web UI Designers and Front-End Developers" made on April 15, 2010 at her DotNetNuke blog.

Since the skin contest launched, there are so many different navigations skin designers implemented for their submissions rather than the core controls. I've seen conversations going on around the community that core DotNetNuke navigations are bit outdated and clumsy.

If you talk to any DotNetNuke expert out there, majority of them would recommend the most widely known and trusted (it seems) Telerik navigation web controls. However, you would have to pay for a $999.00 license fee to be able to access and use it.

According to the performance team at Yahoo!, "Moving style sheets to the document HEAD element helps pages appear to load quicker since this allows pages to render progressively." When implementing a DotNetNuke website, this is a detail that many pass over, yet there is a quick and easy way to comply with this performance rule provided by the DotnetNuke framework.